Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-14
Rich and Peer.
TLos Angeles Herald. l

There Is nanlfestly vast field for prof itable enterprise and development in Ari- zona, and although her inhabitants are anxiously waiting and inviting the whole world to go there and help themselves to whatever they choose, their invitation IS not sufficiently well needed. But her era of prosperity is surely coming. It Is not probable that her vast water re- sources, which she surely has, will remain undeyeloped, non utilized, forever; nor that her immense low grade ore bodies of every variety will lie dormant in the mountains by reason of costly transporta- tion or difficult process of milling or re- duction. It is well known that ore IS universal there. A grave can rarely be dug in any hilly region without the ap- pearance of ore, and the sands of many old waterways and canyons show gold dust few feet beneath the surface. That Territory also contains many | beautiful and fertile valleys, which amid l the larger area of mountain and sterile mesa lands, where miners delve and cattle roam, must ultimately become the points where the food supply from agriculture will be wanted for the population en- gagged in the many other pursuits. When this takes place these choice valleys will produce their wealth from the soil with a 1 home market always at hand.
 The three principal valleys that are now being considered, and looked upon l S4s t11e conlih5 agricultural Centers are the
 Salt river, where beautiful Phenix nest
 les among trees whose branches are
 thronged with song birds, and beneatt
 which ripple the ever fertilizing canals
 Florence, about sixty miles eastward, or
 the Gila river, with whole regions of ricl
 soil, possessing unlimited productive
 force, lying unoccupied; and Solomon
 vile, in the old Pueblo Viejo valley, or
 the middle Gila, still further eastward
 where even now the productions are ex
 ported, leaving balance in favor of tht
 producers.
 The quantity of water flowing througl
 the valleys mentioned is said to be suff
 cient, if properly utilized, to irrigats
 every acre of land in the entire Territory
 But in view of its capacity and possible ultimate development, 1t remains com
 paratively as rude and crude as natur
 left it.
 The vicinity of Yuma and Gila BenC , may be included in what we have said 0 other places, and even old dessicatet Tucson has bright future, if it's peopl were but to work in harmony and wit . energy in the development of it's wate resources.
 Arizona is not fortunately situated t
 receive the well directed attention of tn
 capitalist or the immigrant. Californi !, mining operators are much infatuate l with their native hills and those of Nc 1. vada, and they of the East are heade ? eff by Colorado and New Mexico. Pool : rich Arizona seems to be a wedge be :. tween prosperity on either side. Ths 5 these conditions may change, so as give her the character, advantages an development so well deserved, is tf T hopeful wish of the Herald. Los Ang' > les has warm feeling for that Territor. T We have from the earliest time been coI e nected with it by trade, and many of i ,, people were formerly identified with e' 4 city. It seems to hold the relation to n that colony does to the people fro Q whom 1t was originally planted.